Day One: Working Staff Breakfast (07:00-30min)
Reminders:
• What’s the first stage of team development (Forming), and so
What’s the Teaching EDGE behavior (Explaining).
• Mingle, we’re glad they’re here
• Motto of the International Thespian Society: “Play your part well, for there the honor lies.”
Check in (7:30-60min)
• Pay attention to patrol counts.
Day One: Team Formation and Orientation (07:30-60 min)
• Form teams that will stay together throughout the course.
• Meet the TG assigned to their team.
• Consider themselves for the moment to be a Cub Scout den led by a den chief.
• Enjoy several brief and entertaining get-acquainted activities.
• Locate the course facilities and Understand emergency response procedures.
• View the staff exhibit, both to gain from the material being presented and to see a model presentation of the sorts of exhibits they will later prepare themselves.
Forming Teams
· Staff members will greet participants as they arrive,
· TGs will help their participants find their teams.
· participants will receive copies of The Wood Badge Handbook.
· Point out: Day One edition of The Gilwell Gazette, including the schedule.
Cub Busy Games
Have participants note (see the center piece) that they are invited to a Blue and Gold banquet
Four things to do
• Make a table name plate (use glitter!)
• (individually) Do the Cub Promise & Law puzzle
• (as a Den) Fill in the Cub Scout Secrets form
To earn Arrow of Light, here’s to projects to help:
• What’s Next (Scout Law) cards
• Do the Scout Oath and Law puzzle
When each den has filled, the ASM-TG will circulate them thru the Staff Exhibit.
Staff Exhibit (08:30-59 min)
The staff exhibit illustrates the various programs that make up the family of Scouting. This exhibit serves as a model of the exhibits that patrols will be creating later in the program. It sets a high standard for what is acceptable in the development and presentation of a Wood Badge exhibit.
First Gilwell (09:30-15 min)
Bring:
• Cub Scout hat
• memorize: Cub scout Promise
• memorize: Law of the Pack
• the lyrics to “America the Beautiful” and “Cub Scout Spirit”
Welcome
In place on the field: PM (Best), APM (Cousino)
1. “Welcome Cub Scouts of Pack 1. This is your first Gilwell Field assembly of Wood Badge course SR917. I’m Al Best, your Cub Master.
2. “Gilwell Field was the home of the very first Wood Badge course. Gilwell Field serves as a symbol linking all Wood Badge courses through the years and throughout the world.
3. “In a moment, Cub Scouts we’ll be raising the flag so please use the Cub Scout salute while the flag is being raised.
“We’ll also be reciting the Cub Scout Promise and the Law of the Pack. You’ll remember to use the Cub Scout Sign when we do this.
4. “But first, our Chaplain Aid, Tom Johnson will lead us in an invocation.(… invocation)
5. “Assistant Pack Master, Mr Dan Cousino, please take charge of the pack.
Dan’s lines:
1. “Pack, A-Ten-Shun.”
2. “Den Chiefs report”
[each reports: “Den __ all present”]
3. “Color Guard, please raise the colors.”
[the color guard will: File into place
raise and salute the American flag,
raise and salute the Betsy Ross flag
Dan: Lead us in singing America the Beautiful (Proudly, NOT slow)
Raise the Pack 1 Flag
Return to their original place]
4. Ask the pack members to make the Cub Scout sign and recite the Cub Scout Promise and Law of the Pack.
5. “Pack at ease”
6. “Now let’s have another song! I don’t know about you but I’ve Got that Cub Scout Spirit …
7. “Also with us are visitors from Troop 1: Chuck Smith the Scoutmaster and members of his staff.”
“Very well. If there are no further announcements, [turning to CM] Do you have a Cub Master’s Minute?”
[AL Minute: Christopher Wren]
9. Dan “Please make sure you are in your seats in [gesturing towards the dining hall] Gilwell Hall by 10am.
“Den Chiefs, take charge of your Den.”
Break (09:45-15 min)
Minute
Leaders have vision. Followers who become leaders must share the leader's vision. Consider the question, “why are you here?”
The Great Fire of London in 1666 destroyed most of the city. The English architect, Sir Christopher Wren, volunteered his services to plan and superintend the building of St Paul’s cathedral. He was unknown to most of the workers, and he took advantage of this and would pass among them often and watch the construction. On one occasion, he put the same question to three separate stonecutters. He simply asked them what they were doing.
One of the answered, "I am cutting this stone." Another answered, "I am earning my three shillings per day." But the third stood up proudly and said, "I am helping Sir Christopher Wren build this magnificent cathedral."
Presentations – Course Overview
Al to Introduce
“I’m glad you all are having fun! I’d like to call up the Wood Badge Course Director to give us an overview of the course. The summary is on page __ of the Handbook. We’ve got a lot of handouts but we’re hoping you can answer a question, In addition to more fun, what are we in for?
Course Overview (Troop Presentation - Chuck) (10:00-30 min)
Al: “I know you’ve still got questions and we’ll definitely get to them all.
At this time, Follow your Den Chiefs to your Dens.
You’ll be back in an hour. Bring with you your WB Handbook and something to take notes with.
Listening to Learn (Patrol Presentation) (10:30-50 min)
Transform the Hall to Blue and Gold
They must be in their seats by 11:30am.
Blue and Gold (11:30-90 min)
AL: “Welcome to our Blue and Gold banquet, Webelos.
Dan do you have a song for us?”
Dan: “The more we get together”
Denners: Opening Ceremony (each Denner reads one of the 8 parts)
Al: “Please join me in the pledge of allegiance”
Chuck: Introductions
SPL: Skit
Blue and Gold props
See page ___ of the Handbook
•Ax and log. The ax and log is the totem of Gilwell Park. Baden-Powell held the first Wood Badge course at Gilwell Park near London. To this day, Gilwell is considered the international home of Wood Badge.
• MacLaren tartan. In 1919, a Scotsman named W. F. de Bois MacLaren, a district commissioner for Scouting in Scotland, purchased Gilwell Park and presented it to the British Boy Scout Association. He explained that one of his purposes in doing so was “to provide a training ground for the officers of the Scouting movement.” In perpetual appreciation for his generosity to Scouting, Wood Badge adopted the tartan of the MacLaren clan. It is this tartan that appears on the Wood Badge neckerchief.
• Wood Badge beads. In 1888 during a military campaign in Africa, Baden Powell acquired a necklace of wooden beads from the hut of a warrior chief named Dinizulu. Years later at the conclusion of the first Wood Badge course, Baden-Powell gave each course graduate a bead from the necklace. The “Wood Badge” program takes its name from those beads. Since then, more than 100,000 Scouters worldwide have completed Wood Badge courses and can wear replicas of the original wooden beads.
• Neckerchief and woggle. Held in place by a leather woggle, the Wood Badge neckerchief—tan with a patch of MacLaren tartan—may be worn by course graduates. Wood Badge beads, neckerchief, and woggle may be worn only with the official field uniform of the BSA.
• Kudu horn. During his military service in Africa, Baden-Powell observed members of the Matabele tribe blowing on the horn of a kudu to signal to one another. He brought a kudu horn back to England with him, and in the summer of 1907 when he held his first experimental camp on Brownsea Island, Baden Powell sounded the horn to assemble his campers. The same horn was entrusted to Gilwell Park in 1920 for use in Scout training courses. Since that time, the kudu horn has been a symbol of Wood Badge courses throughout the world.
And at the end of the Blue and Gold, you’ll be introduced to the final symbol of Wood Badge
Bridging
On the Cub side: ASM-P, ASM-TG, ASPL
On the Scout side: SM, SPL, QMs
• Sequence: Denner lead the Den up to the cub-side of bridge
• TG move (unobtrusively) to the Troop side of the bridge
• SM asks ‘the question’. Cubs answer. Cross over
• SM, SPL, TG shake hands of patrol; SPL gives flag to (ex) Denner
• TG picks up the flag stand (a block of wood)
• TG returns patrol to table
SPL: Announcments
Sing “Back to Gilwell” (only) with your assigned patrol AND with “staffers”
• Tell them they’ll be back in 2 hours (at 1pm).
Bridging
Cubmaster: Today you are taking a giant step—from Cub Scouting to Boy Scouting. Today we will be talking about the colors of the four winds and the meaning they have for us. Remember what is said today, and let the winds continue to guide you along the Scouting trail.
(Lights the blue candle.) Blue stands for the Cub Scout spirit and the north wind. You are a true-blue Cub Scout and live up to the Law of the Pack. It brings you only the warmest of winds.
(Light its time yellow candle.) Yellow stands for the south wind that carries the story of your achievements far and wide. As a Cub Scout you have been eager, fair, and a credit to your den and pack.
(Lights the white candle.) White stands for the east wind and the spirit of Scouting. The east wind carries the story of fun and happiness to your Scout troop and tells others how you live up to the Cub Scout Promise.
(Light the red candle.) Red stands for the west wind and represents your family. In Cub Scouting, your family helped guide you along the trail. They will go with you into Boy Scouting, but now it is you who will lead the way.
Scoutmaster: Hello, Webelos Scouts of Akela, what do you desire?
Cubmaster: Your answer is, “We desire to be Boy Scouts.”
Scouts: We desire to be Boy Scouts.
Scoutmaster:Then prepare to cross the bridge.
Cubmaster:Congratulations! We have been proud to have you as a member of this Cub Scout pack and we wish you well in Boy Scouting. As you cross the bridge, we’ll shake your hand one last time. Your Scoutmaster and senior patrol leader await you on the other side. Please cross over by dens.
Scoutmaster: (‘After each den has crossed over the bridge) Welcome to Boy Scouting. You are now members of the _____Patrol. May I present you with your patrol flag. (After all the dens in the group have crossed over) Later today each of you will be inducted into membership in Gilwell Troop 1 and presented with your troop neckerchief. Wear it with pride as many have done before you. Your senior patrol leader now wishes to express the troop’s pleasure in having you as a member.
Senior patrol leader leads the troop in a cheer for the new Scouts.
Scoutmaster: Cubmasters ______,we would like you to join the troop with your Webelos Scouts as an assistant Scoutmaster. Would you be willing to join Troop 1?
Cubmasters: Thank you, I would love to be a part of Troop 1. Scoutmaster, I turn the program over to you.
Making Introductions (13:00) 10 min
1. To begin the preopening activity, the troop guide asks each patrol member to learn about another member of the patrol and get ready to introduce that person to the patrol.
2. Patrol members pair off and take a few minutes to interview one another. They should give some thought to how they will make their introductions and what they will emphasize.
3. Patrol members take turns introducing the person each has interviewed. If some of the participants already know each other, the interviewers can shape their introductions to highlight interesting points that may not be commonly known.
Making a Woggle (13:10) 15 min
The second preopening activity is making a woggle. Participants should
• Experience the success of learning a new skill.
• Connect with a Wood Badge tradition.
• Model effective teaching techniques (use: “EDGE”)
The troop guide provides each patrol member with a 40-inch length of cord.
Note: Each troop guide must have extra woggles to lend to any patrol members who do not finish tying their own woggles in a timely fashion. Troop guides can then, later in the day, help patrol members finish tying their own woggles.
Note: A copy of the methods for tying a woggle handed out
Skills Instruction—The Aims and Methods of Scouting
(13:25) 15 min
15-minute facilitated by Troop Guide in “patrol corners”
Each participant has a copy of the Aims of Scouting worksheet.
The presentation will lead participants to
• Understand the underlying principles of Scouting.
• Realize how the aims of Scouting apply to Cub Scouting, Boy Scouting, Varsity Scouting, and Venturing.
• Relate the aims of Scouting to their own lives and BSA responsibilities.
Procedure
1. Ask patrol members to think about young people they know who are currently in Cub Scouting, Boy Scouting, Varsity Scouting, or Venturing.
2. Next, imagine the same people 10 years in the future. Consider what they might be doing, where they could be living, and how they will be spending their time.
3. Ask each patrol member to take two or three minutes to write down (on the back of the Aims of Scouting worksheet) some qualities that those young people will exhibit in the future that they have gained from their current Scouting experience. Answers might include: